The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.